By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Fumino Sugiyama and the baby in his arms were among 11,000 people who joined the LGBT pride parade in Tokyo on April 28, a turnout 10 times the figure for the fir…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun GINOWAN, Okinawa Prefecture--Children who gather after school at a play center located only 200 meters from the fence of a U.S. air base here are exposed to deafe…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun NAGOYA--With Japan preparing to bid farewell to the Heisei Era to usher in the Reiwa Era, residents of this central metropolis are flocking to purchase products l…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun KYOTO--A biannual special exhibition at 20 temples and shrines here will focus on items with close ties to past emperors in light of the new imperial era that wil…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun For the second time, Carlos Ghosn left the Tokyo Detention House on bail on April 25, but this time in a business suit.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun SENDAI, Miyagi Prefecture—He may be smiling on postcards that come with special subway passes issued here, but figure-skating sensation Hanyu Yuzuru is not a happy…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Instagram-crazed tourists are approaching endangered wild animals in Japan and even grabbing them in their pursuit of cool selfies to post on the social media sit…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Prosecutors on April 22 indicted Carlos Ghosn on a new charge of misappropriating Nissan Motor Co.'s funds for his personal use via a dealership in Oman.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture--Blind sailor Mitsuhiro Iwamoto called himself “the happiest person on earth” after conquering the Pacific Ocean in a sailboat after n…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun KYOTO--Remove the walls you have built within yourself, don't compare yourself to others, and treat all people equally. These are a few of the teachings of a prom…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun KYOTO--With the city struggling to serve the growing numbers of tourists, a company that provides double-decker bus tours is hoping to take some of the load off t…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Yokozuna Hakuho said he has applied for Japanese nationality, which would enable him to get around an unwritten “no foreigners” rule and remain in Japan’s sumo wo…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Hundreds of women in Tokyo protested two recent court rulings in which the judges recognized that rapes had occurred but allowed the perpetrators to walk because …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun TAKAYAMA, Gifu Prefecture--A "karakuri" mechanical doll is perched precariously on what resembles a diving board jutting from the top of a towering parade float.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Over a grainy live feed, a remotely guided robotic arm could be seen carefully grasping a nuclear fuel assembly in a storage pool and then lifting it up for remov…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun MANILA--In hopes of obtaining the new "specified skills" working visa, more than 100 Filipinos on April 13-14 took the first tests to work in Japan aimed at helpi…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun The ratio of people aged 70 or older in Japan has exceeded 20 percent of the population for the first time. The figure was among statistics released April 12 by t…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Dunhuang in northwest China was a major stop on the ancient Silk Road, but U.S. military experts at first thought they were observing a different sort of mirage r…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Japanese scientists and engineers compiled immense amounts of data and filled in gaps for the international effort that produced the first image of a black hole, …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun YOSHINO, Nara Prefecture--Looking fit for a painting, Mount Yoshinoyama here is enchanting visitors with the annual spring spectacle of about 30,000 cherry trees …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun URAYASU, Chiba Prefecture--A museum here has created a guidebook that outlines the history and geographical features of this seaside city for tourists and residen…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Crown Prince Naruhito clearly has a lot on his mind these days, but the future emperor continues to keep the well-being of his wife, Crown Princess Masako, a top …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko took an unannounced stroll outside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on April 7 and waved to surprised joggers and pedestrians alon…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun When celebrated author Osamu Dazai was working on his collection of fairy tales in the waning days of World War II, he wrote about American and British "devils."

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency scientists sent a signal to the Hayabusa 2 space probe on April 5 cueing it to drop a bomb over the asteroid Ryugu to blast a c…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Lawyers for Carlos Ghosn were baffled by a series of unusual moves by prosecutors related to the re-arrest of their client on April 4, just 30 days after his rele…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun A grand piano decorated by avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama is now available for anyone to play on the 45th floor of the Tokyo metropolitan government's main build…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Members of a special panel considering the name of a new imperial era had six choices before them, three of which were rooted in ancient Japanese texts.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun It was the perfect event for lighting up social networks that allow users to instantly share experiences around the world: The announcement of the new era name.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun MASUDA, Shimane Prefecture--All 600,000 or so Shiba Inu dogs in the world today are descended from a single pedigree hound called Ishi that was born here in 1930,…